228 quotes found
“Men are not influenced by things but by their thoughts about things.”
“A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.”
“Coming events cast their shadows before.”
“I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.”
“A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
“It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.”
“Boys this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand good or bad and don't whine and complain but play it out. If you're men enough to do that ...”
“Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.”
“Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.”
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”
“Never regret. If it's good it's wonderful. If it's bad it's experience.”
“I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.”
“True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.”
“On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.”
“When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in it will help ...”
“If you are being run out of town get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.”
“Experience is not what happens to you it is what you do with what happens to you.”
“When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.”
“He who having lost one ideal refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.”
